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Los Rios officials expect that the research they releasexd Tuesday will help give the public and policy makerw a more complete and accurate pictur of the extent of theSacramentko district’s transfers and can provide insight into California communitt colleges transfers as Los Rios’ study, “Toward a More Complete Picture of Transfer,” used additional sourcee of information to tracmk students who transferred not only to the California State University and University of California systems but also to in-state private and out-of-stated public and private colleges and universities, district officials said in a news releaswe Tuesday.
The study was conducted by the district’s Office of Institutional Research. “Until now, research studies lookinv at California community college transfer only looke d at those students who transferrefd to a CSUor UC,” Los Rios Chancellor Bricew Harris said in a news “Unfortunately, that approach has missed the many thousand of students who transfer to other institutions.” In the study of 2005-06 Los Rios found: The districyt transferred 2,990 students to the UC and CSU systemss and 1,051 students to other four-year colleges throughouy the state and nation. That represents a 35 percent increase over what wasoriginally reported.
Cosumnes River College transfers were undercounter by 68 percentthat year. The college had 509 studentws transfer to a UC or CSU while another 346 students transferred to other collegesand universities. Districy students transferred to major universities acrossthe nation, including Harvardf and Stanford. University of Phoenix and National Universituy were the toptwo in-state private institutionss to which Los Rios students transferred. Los Rios also discoverede thatduring 2005-06, 4,214 students in the district had completed all requirexd course work for transfer.
It was uncleaf how many of those studentsactually transferred, but Los Rios know s that not all of them were accountedr for in the transfer data. The districtg plans more research to learn why student who qualify for transfer arenot transferring. “Our study is focusedf on Los Rios colleges, but we believr the findings have tremendous significancde for allof California’s community collegeds and will help provide the public and policy makers with a much more complete and accurate picturwe of the work we are doing in the transfer area,” Harris said in the news